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Carlovonsexron wrote:
To those hating on horned helmets: the bronze age sardinians/sherden, AKA the better, cooler, and more effective version of vikings before it was cool would like to have a word with you

Yes but sadly it’s very difficult to find quality fantasy miniatures based on Bronze Age cultures. Fantasy is very much stuck in a medieval rut.

Any idea when those barbarians are up for sale?

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

Carlovonsexron wrote:
To those hating on horned helmets: the bronze age sardinians/sherden, AKA the better, cooler, and more effective version of vikings before it was cool would like to have a word with you

Yes but sadly it’s very difficult to find quality fantasy miniatures based on Bronze Age cultures. Fantasy is very much stuck in a medieval rut.

It is, but I and some noble others are working hard at getting wargames Atlantic to change that. I may have even helped convince them to make a Trojan Chariot


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But on topic- I LOVE these barbarian women. Can't wait to get my hands on them.


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Yes, I am aware of how this sounds, and have no regrets.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

Carlovonsexron wrote:
To those hating on horned helmets: the bronze age sardinians/sherden, AKA the better, cooler, and more effective version of vikings before it was cool would like to have a word with you

Yes but sadly it’s very difficult to find quality fantasy miniatures based on Bronze Age cultures. Fantasy is very much stuck in a medieval rut.

Try the Ziggurat line by Lucid Eye Publications. 28mm white metal miniatures. The Greek inspired minis are more Classical inspired than Bronze Age, but they do have Sea People figures. I bought their Pale Pharoah figure for a Frostgrave warband. The Pharoah is their only Egyptian inspired figure. There are two priestesses whose source I can't place, although based on the name of one of them, "The Breath of Inana" I'd guess Sumerian.

For general Bronze Age mercenaries or pirates, you can get close enough with Victrix Numidians and armored Iberians, especially if you use the pointy “almost Assyrian” helmets. For troops of specific powers, WGA has Egyptians and Achaeans/Trojans in development. From those two kits, you can make a lot of the Sea Peoples with some creative helmet conversions.

I'm hoping that WGA will.make a dedicated Sherden kit- because I'm sure they will.give some Peleset and or Lukka heads,.and those.combijed with whatever ever Trojan or Achean kits they make should do well to cover the Aegean bronze age, and eat the lunch North Star could have served themselves had they made "drichaean" plastics.

Painted ladies.

Why are they all pogging

Very good, very nice.

Another fine kit absolutely obliterated by North Star's in house painter.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Another fine kit absolutely obliterated by North Star's in house painter.

Or maybe it’s an excellent paint job depicting Barbarians who do all their iron smelting upstream from their drinking water?

I'm loving these!

In other fun news, I sent an email to North Star to both profress my admiration of said barbarians, and ask a few questions about things.

Nick is open to looking at the idea of plastic cultist knights/templars as they'll be looking at their cultist stuff next year.

So if you guys are interested in plastic cultist knights consider dropping them a line at some point down the road. Popular demand might be the thing that makes the difference!

Sorry but what would Cultist Knights be?

Evil/chaos knights? Evil specialists?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Sorry but what would Cultist Knights be?

Evil/chaos knights? Evil specialists?

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7968

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7747

Some pics

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Another fine kit absolutely obliterated by North Star's in house painter.

I think its a very good paintjob.

Why, because layered paint technique is the one GW teaches (other than contrast) and is the most common technique used in the hobby industry today. It looks fine from further away and the exaggerated highlights show off the structure of the model.

Yes you can get better paint jobs, but this is closer to a realistic tabletop quality plus extra effort, rather than competition entry.

I have zero complaints.

I would argue that this technique obscures the structure of the model.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I would argue that this technique obscures the structure of the model.

I would argue that's baloney.

Swarms

Appearing up for pre-order: https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=195&cat=774&page=1

Specifically: https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=16761

Sprue pics, looks like each sprue come with 2 horny barbarian women.

Metals

Candle-Jacks...hmmm...OF COURSE!!!

Seriously, love the look of them.

Is that wolf made of origami?

It's Game of Dogs: The Iron Hound.
They are called Blade-Dogs and the name is the game.

Them punkins are on the list

Candle Jacks are truly inspired. Frostgrave metals are generally a bit smaller than I prefer, but I'm tempted nonetheless. Very much looking forward to seeing what the large version looks like, as the concept art for it is fantastic.

Blade Dogs could pass for Hounds of Tindalos, if you prefer your angle-hopping dogs looking more fractured / geometric rather than biomorphic. (There's plenty of precedent for both in the minis world.) These look like they crept out from an early Duchamp painting. "Hounds of Tindalos Descending a Staircase."

Spotted this morning on Goodreads:

Frostgrave: The Wildwoods

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62039228-frostgrave

No idea if this is an expansion or a spinoff like Ghost Archæpelago?

 zedmeister wrote:
Spotted this morning on Goodreads:

Frostgrave: The Wildwoods

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62039228-frostgrave

No idea if this is an expansion or a spinoff like Ghost Archæpelago?

First I have heard of it, At a guess though it would be another expansion rather than a spinoff with a title like that.

 zedmeister wrote:
Spotted this morning on Goodreads:

Frostgrave: The Wildwoods

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62039228-frostgrave

No idea if this is an expansion or a spinoff like Ghost Archæpelago?

I bet this is an expansion focusing on a Witch mages.